They’ll be addressed throughout the day by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Sen. Tom Libous and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

The NY Farm Bureau plans to have hundreds of its members in town. It’s top priorities include capping agricultural assessments at 2 percent (instead of 10 percent) and incentives for milk production, given that demand is expected to rise exponentially, thanks to Cuomo’s success in making upstate the Greek yogurt capital of the US.

The Senate will (finally) consider the appointment of Medicaid Inspector General Jim Cox, who was nominated by Cuomo last July, among others.

This morning’s email brought some stunning news: Ross Levi was abruptly fired from his post as Empire State Pride Agenda’s executive director last night – less than one year after the LGBT community’s big gay marriage win.

Board members were reportedly upset he had ceded ground in that fight to the HRC and failed to establish a clear post-gay marriage agenda for the organization.

The news was announced in a press release shortly before 1 a.m. that said Levi would be replaced on an interim basis by his deputy, Lynn Faria, “effective immediately.”

“We greatly appreciate Ross’s twelve years with the organization. He has been part of the Pride Agenda’s major legislative victories, culminating in the momentous marriage win last year,” said ESPA Chair Louis Bradbury. “We wish Ross the very best in his future endeavors.”

According to the release, ESPA, the state’s largest LGBT organization, will now be focused on getting GENDA passed in Albany and standing by lawmakers (mostly those 4 GOP senators) who took risky votes on gay marriage last summer.

Apparently, ESPA was hoping Levi would go quietly, but according to GCN, he refused to sign a confidentiality agreement that would have prevented him from speaking publicly about his termination. So, we might learn more today.

Cuomo did not weigh in on the proposed maps, but attorneys for legislative leaders did, trying to convince Mann to consider incumbency when she draws maps of her own – due out next Monday.

Former LG Dick Ravitch is a busy guy. He’s helping Syracuse climb out of its fiscal mess, and now is heading up an independent commission to assist Yonkers in much the same way. Also on board: Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky.

Sen. Tom Libous declined to comment about attorney Anthony Mangone’s testimony in the Yonkers corruption case that the senator pressure him to hire Libous’s son and steered funds to his firm to pay part of the son’s salary.

New Albany County Executive Dan McCoy says the county is running out of money. He wants to privatize the nursing home to help cut costs.

The Nassau County Legislature is under fire after approving a plan to halve the number of police precincts in the Long Island municipality.

Old tensions between Barnard and Columbia have been exacerbated by the fact that President Obama is giving the commencement address at the independence women’s college and not his own alma mater.

Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to make joint appearances with Obama at a series of campaign fundraisers.

Forbes and Bloomberg LP are fighting over who can best keep tabs of the nation’s uber-wealthy.

A Monroe, Orange County mother of four was busted for allegedly running a high-end prostitution ring on the Upper East Side.

Staten Island’s GOP lawmakers want a say in how the state intends to dole out dough from the upcoming budget to the Port Authority.

Bill Mulrow, Cuomo’s nominee to head up two of the state’s agencies that finance affordable housing, reportedly dressed in “raggedy clothes” and mocked Occupy Wall Street protesters in a skit performed at a dinner for financial big wigs.

Occupy Rochester — the last encampment of its kind in New York state — on Monday filed suit seeking an injunction against the City of Rochester in an effort to keep city officials from forcing them out of Washington Square Park.

Kicker, courtesy of Rep. Charlie Rangel rival, Vince Morgan: “We’re like milk, we all have an expiration date, and you know Mr. Rangel is past that expiration date on the milk, you know, we need some fresh milk, and I’m that fresh cup of milk.”